Cassel Award for Excellence in Religion Reporting at Small-Sized Newspapers

First Place: Jennifer Preyss, Victoria Advocate
Second Place: Catherine Godbey, The Decatur Daily

Cornell Award for Excellence in Religion Reporting at Mid-Sized Newspapers

First Place: Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News National
Second Place: Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune
Third Place: Jennifer Berry Hawes, The Post and Courier

Excellence in Religion Reporting at Metropolitan Newspapers

First Place: Peter Smith, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Second Place: Lilly Fowler, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Excellence in Religion Reporting at Large Newspapers & Wire Services

First Place: Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times
Second Place: Lauren Markoe, Religion News Srervice

Supple Award for Excellence in Religion Feature Writing

First Place: Ashley Powers for work at The California Sunday Magazine
Second Place: Yair Rosenberg, Tablet
Third Place: Mark Oppenheimer for work at BuzzFeed and The New York Times
Honorable Mention: Nadine Epstein, Moment
Honorable Mention: Michael Orbach, Moment

Gerald A. Renner Award for Excellence in Enterprise Religion Reporting

First Place: Kevin Hardy, Chattanooga Times Free-Press
Second Place: Peter Smith, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Third Place: Moni Basu, CNN

Excellence in Religion Commentary

First Place: Margery Eagan, Crux
Second Place: Yair Rosenberg, Tablet
Third Place: Jeffrey K. Salkin for work at Religion News Service
Honorable Mention: Joanna Brooks, Religion Dispatches

Excellence in Religion News Analysis

First Place: David Gibson, Religion News Service
Second Place: John L. Allen, Crux
Third Place: Patricia Miller, Religion Dispatches
Honorable Mention: Staff of The Advocate

Excellence in Short Religion Video

First Place: Alex Ferreira, DOCFilms
Second Place: Sally Morrow, Religion News Service

Excellence in Online Religion Section

CNN Belief

Excellence in Magazine News Religion Reporting

First Place: Eeta Prince-Gibson, Moment
Second Place: Ashley Powers for work at The California Sunday Magazine
Third Place: Mark Oppenheimer, The New York Times Magazine
Honorable Mention: Bobby Ross Jr., The Christian Chronicle

Excellence in Magazine Overall Religion Coverage

Tikkun

Excellence in Television News Magazine Religion Reporting

First Place: Fred de Sam Lazaro and Nikki See, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Second Place: Lucky Severson and Trent Harris, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Third Place: Kim Lawton and Patty Jette, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Honorable Mention: Judy Valente and Gail Fendley, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly

Excellence in Television Local News Reporting

Jeff Abell and Luke Rollins, WBFF-TV

Excellence in Television National Network/Cable News Religion Reporting

Mike O’Sullivan, Voice of America

Excellence in Religion Documentary

“Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler” by WGBH and Maya Vision

Excellence in Radio or Podcast Religion Reporting

First Place: Ryan Famuliner and Abigail Keel, KBIA-Columbia, Mo.
Second Place: Dina Weinstein, “Making Contact”
Third Place: Lauren Kwerel, Interfaith Voices
Honorable Mention: Ross Reynolds and Matthew Streib, KUOW-Seattle

Excellence for Nonfiction Religion Book

First Place: Molly Worthen, “Apostles of Reason”
Second Place: Tim Townsend, “Mission at Nuremberg”
Third Place: Laura Silver, “Knish: In Search of Jewish Soul Food”